Display cabinet



April 1941- v H. A. MUIRHEAD 2,239,618

DISPLAY CABINET Filed April 10, 1939 IN VENTOR.

HHRRY ALFRED MUIRHEHD.

Patented Apr. 22, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPLAY CABINET Application April 10, 1939, Serial No. 266,931

3 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in display cabinets which are particularly adapted for use in mens furnishing stores and other places where relatively small articles of varying patterns are desired to be assembled in piles or stacks for convenient display to customers.

The objects of the invention are to provide means whereby articles may be placed in individual stacks upon individual shelves, so that at a glance from the front of the cabinet it may be determined which stack of articles is required for further inspection, and to provide for the withdrawal of said shelf and its stack of goods to a position of complete exposure to View.

The invention consists of a plurality of shelves arranged in tiers and separated laterally so that articles placed upon each shelf may be exposed to view from the top, the front and both sides, as will be more fully described in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the cabinet.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of a shelf and its slide.

Figure 4 is a fractionated perspective view of shelf and slide.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

The numeral I indicates a cabinet having side walls 2, a top wall 3 and a back wall 4 and is preferably fitted with suitable glazed doors, not shown. A partition 5 extends across the cabinet parallel to the back wall 4, which partition is provided with tiers of rows of apertures 6. The apertures 6 of alternate rows are staggered so that an aperture of one row will extend partly across two apertures of the row above or below.

Supported from the rear wall 4 and from the lower marginal edge of each aperture 6 in the partition 5 is a shelf 1 which may be used alone for the display of goods but which is preferably fitted with side guides 8, see Figures 3 and 4, extending the entire length of the shelf. Slidably mounted upon each shelf 1 is a panel or drawer 9 having its forward end downwardly turned to form a drawer pull Ill for drawing the panel forwardly to expose the goods carried thereby. The panels or drawers 9 may be fitted with wire side and back rails II, as shown, to maintain the stack of goods carried by each of them against accidental displacement while still allowing the goods to be conveniently seen on both sides.

It will be noticed that when all the panels 9 are pushed back to their rearmost position the goods on the lower shelves are half exposed to view and the front and a large proportion of the upper surface of each stack of goods is capable of being viewed by looking down through the spaces between the shelves of the row next above. After having determined which panel contains the goods required, that panel is drawn out to expose fully the front, the top and opposite sides thereof. The goods when so displayed can be separated for further inspection or selection without disturbing the goods in any other stack.

It will be obvious that with this means of display, less confusion in choice will result and the whole of the goods can be kept tidy with little on no effort.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A cabinet having a rear support, an apertured partition and a plurality of rows of shelves, each of said shelves being secured to the rear support and projecting through an aperture in the partition and the shelves of one row being staggered with respect to the shelves of an adjacent row, each of said shelves being supported in part from the rear support and in part from the partition.

2. A cabinet having a rear support, an apertured partition and a plurality of rows of shelves,

each of said shelves being secured to the rear support and projecting through an aperture in the partition and the shelves of one row being staggered with respect to the shelves of an adjacent row, each of said shelves being supported in part from the rear support and in part from the partition, adjacent marginal edges of two adjacent shelves of one row extending inwardly over the side edges of the shelf directly therebelow.

3. A cabinet having a rear support, an apertured partition and a plurality of rows of shelves, each of said shelves being secured to the rear support and projecting through an aperture in the partition, the shelves of one row being stagered with respect to the shelves of an adjacent row, each of said shelves being sup orted in part from the rear support and in part from the partion, and article bearing panels slidably mounted on some of the shelves.

HARRY ALFRED MUIRHEAD. 

